Foreign Affairs

Our Head of External Relations, Elizabeth Anderson discusses our new briefing note written by Charlotte Littlewood and Elizabeth Arif-Fear on Human Rights and the Palestinian Territories. The first letter I ever had published in a national newspaper was my horror at arranged marriages in the middle east – I was 12. Women’s rights, and especially those in less developed nations […]

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Parliament Street CEO, Patrick Sullivan writes an Op-Ed about the recent events in Syria and the challenges facing the International Community. Donald Trump has passed the first real leadership test of his young Presidency and shocked many in the process. In the abstract it is easy to say that we should not get involved in situations involving “far away people […]

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Emily Payne, Parliament Street’s Director of Middle East Studies tells how 2016 changed the region and looks at what is in store for it in 2017. 2016 was an eventful year starting with the Cologne New Year’s Eve sexual assaults and ending in the retaking of Aleppo and assault of Mosul. Almost six years after the Arab Spring, civil […]

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What is a referendum? A referendum is a single-issue vote by which the state delineates decision making on a controversial issue to the people. In the past year, we’ve seen two issues which have long divided nations come to a head at the ballot box, and the results have been a disaster. Last week, the Colombian President, Juan Manuel Santos, […]

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Sunday’s elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern were a resounding defeat for Chancellor Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) — in her home state no less. Coalition partners Social Democratic Party (SPD) topped the election results, whilst the far-right Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) beat the CDU into second place. Quite the embarrassing finish for a Chancellor who has been in power since 2005 and is […]

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Think about it- Turkey has been in the news a lot lately and not for good reasons. Between the refugee crisis of the past year to the attack at Ataturk Airport to the failed coup d’etat of last month, it seems that the Turkish state is reaching a tipping point. Of course, let’s not forget the seemingly endless and destructive […]

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Thomas Lahey is a student at the Catholic University of America and aspiring jurist. EU and US negotiators will meet in New York City between 25-29 April to continue discussions about finalising the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Commissioner Cecilia Malmström and US Trade Representative Michael Froman have undertaken an ambitious agenda to agree on a framework for this […]

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This month, Barack Obama became the first President of the United States of America in ninety years to visit Cuba, heralding the dawn of a new relationship between the two countries. The island nation at the centre of the defining incident of the Cold War, over which Kennedy and Khrushchev came so close to escalating the conflict, has long been […]

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A Parliament Street Report, prepared by James Downes, Director of Public Opinion and Polling Much has been made in the media recently about the decline of traditional mainstream left-wing parties across Western Europe. Recent articles in the Economist and the New Statesman have outlined how the traditional centre left are under attack from insurgent parties from the extreme left and right alike who are […]

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By Tom Lahey As thousands of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Libya and parts of West Africa stream across Europe from the east and south, one of the greatest moral questions of our time arises: should the principle of freedom of movement allow all of these people to flow unchecked throughout the continent and settle in accommodations often paid for by […]